Ideas Requested To Improve Mysql Results In Db Comparison

2001-08-26 Thread Mark kirkwood
Dear List, I did a data warehouse comparison of a number of databases a while back - for full details of data structures and queries see : http://homepages.slingshot.co.nz/~markir Altho I spent more time on Mysql than any of the others, I was not able to optimize some aspects as much as I

RE: MySQL + ODBC + palm + security?

2001-08-26 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Venu writes: Hi !!! Can anyone has the answer for him ? How we can have a secure data transfer over the web using MySQL and its APIs ? He is desperately needed some idea in order to take further steps with MySQL ? Regards Venu Something like this : ssh1 -C [EMAIL PROTECTED] -L

Re: Version 4.0

2001-08-26 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Jeremy Zawodny writes: On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 08:32:00AM -0500, Steve Suehring wrote: Hello- I poked around on the site but didn't find any definite answer. Roughly when is version 4.0 of MySQL expected out? I saw the information on the todo in regards to version 4.0 and the

RE: MySQL Still a wise choice for developers?

2001-08-26 Thread Carsten H. Pedersen
I would also strongly suggest not storing your images in the database but rather a link to the image. even that - why? if you're using an ultrafast webserver like Tux in combination with Apache/php-perl the Tux webserver serves the images incredibly fast (see specweb tests) what

Installation of MySQL if using Windows ME

2001-08-26 Thread hilmar.scheel
Description: I want to install MySQL on my PC. But I'm using Windows ME as operation system. So I downloaded the Windows 95/98/NT/2000 (Intel)-version. Was this correct? After installation I tried to start the server using following MS DOS-commando

Performance

2001-08-26 Thread Guddack Thorsten ICM MP SCM SCCM PI
Hi guy's, does anybody has experience with running mysql on a linux system or on an winnt-server-system? If I have the same hardware for both operating systems ( e.g PIII with 256 MB Ram and a 36 GB SCSI-HF) which one gives me or the mysql users the best performance? At the moment I used a

Re: Performance

2001-08-26 Thread Gary Huntress
While I have not specifically done a linux vs NT shootout, I have worked with many similar programs on both platforms. My closest experience was with the commercial database Sybase (ASE 12.0) With the same data, and the same database schema on the exact same hardware, we found that linux (RH

Re: MySQL Still a wise choice for developers?

2001-08-26 Thread Chris Chabot
Sigh, that wasnt realy the point of the email, but ok, i knew it could happen when i wrote it. The images -are- stored in the database in the product i'm activly marketing, its a content management system, which can be administered via a web interface. All text / html / images are stored in the

submit a full bug report

2001-08-26 Thread sailer-sh
I use kernel 2.4.9 ,I compiled mysql-3.23.41(./configure --with-low-memory; make ), when make, it said : ranlib .libs/libmysqlclient.a creating libmysqlclient.la (cd .libs rm -f libmysqlclient.la ln -s ../libmysqlclient.la libmysqlclient.la) make[2]: Leaving directory

Re: submit a full bug report

2001-08-26 Thread Roman Festchook
What compiler you use? I have similar problem with some software packages, when I try compile it with RedHat gcc-2.96. Try another version, gcc 3.01 or gcc 2.95 On Sun 26 Aug 2001 18:39, sailer-sh wrote: I use kernel 2.4.9 ,I compiled mysql-3.23.41(./configure --with-low-memory; make ), when

Re: Replication advice needed...

2001-08-26 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:29:31AM +, Greg Cope wrote: Jeremy Zawodny wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:37:43AM -0700, Bryan Coon wrote: The other solution is rsync. I dont know much about this guy yet, but I have some concerns with using it to copy over large remote files.

Re:innobase problem

2001-08-26 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Ryan, if you can run the recovery inside gdb with mysqld compiled with the gcc option -g and print the stack trace with bt, it may help me to see where the problem is and fix it. If you have updated the primary key of a 8000-byte row then the table is certainly corrupt and cannot be saved. But

Re: large table with text field -- performance?

2001-08-26 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:59:38AM -0400, Tac/Smokescreen wrote: I have a large (40 million rows) table that currently consists of a few integers and a varchar. I need to add a memo (text 255 chars) field to about 2% of the rows. Originally I was going to create another table with a key

[Bug in InnoDB]: updating primary key of 8000-byte row corrupts table!

2001-08-26 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Hi! A serious bug has been found in the big BLOB and TEXT support of InnoDB. If you update the primary key of a row whose length is 8000 bytes, then the table becomes corrupt. Also the tablespace may become corrupt. Note that also a REPLACE can internally be handled as an update. A fixed

Inno-DB, updating table problem

2001-08-26 Thread Ralph Graulich
Hi, recently I converted a table containing a large amount of text fields from myISAM to inno-DB and encountered a problem I can't help with. The table structure consists of: textref_id INT(12) UNSIGNED textref_cat_id INT(12) UNSIGNED textgroup_key CHAR(5) NOT

Re: Inno-DB, updating table problem

2001-08-26 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 09:10:31PM +0200, Ralph Graulich wrote: Hi, recently I converted a table containing a large amount of text fields from myISAM to inno-DB and encountered a problem I can't help with. The table structure consists of: textref_id INT(12) UNSIGNED

Re: Inno-DB, updating table problem

2001-08-26 Thread Ralph Graulich
the table becomes corrupted. Is this some limitation of inno DB or should I separate the UPDATE process in two separate UPDATE statements? It's a known and confirmed bug that will be fixed in 3.23.42. There was an announcement just posted about this a few minutes ago. Hi Jeremy, thanks alot

Adding that MySQL queries stats stuff to the bottom of emails?

2001-08-26 Thread David Ayliffe
I'm always seeing stuff like: MySQL 3.23.41-max: up 9 days, processed 115,312,654 queries (140/sec. avg) On the bottom of emails. My question is HOW do you add this to emails? Thanks lots David Ayliffe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Running Windows 2000 Advanced Server (SP2) Also running Suse Linux

Re: Perl DBI -- How to select all returned values into an array

2001-08-26 Thread Tim Bunce
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 09:24:25PM -0500, Paul DuBois wrote: At 10:07 AM -0700 8/24/01, Katherine Porter wrote: For single values I usually use this DBI function and query: my $val =3D $dbh-selectrow_array(SELECT value FROM tab1 WHERE test=3D= 2); However, what if I want to store a

No Lock

2001-08-26 Thread Boaz Yahav
Does mysql have something like NO LOCK? SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE myfield='xyz' NO LOCK berber - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list

Events with MySQL

2001-08-26 Thread Darius Blaszijk
Hello, I'm just beginning with MySQL, and I have the following question. Is there something like events in MySQL. What I want to do is write some message automtically into a table every time a record in some table is changed. Many thanks, Darius Blaszijk

Re: No Lock

2001-08-26 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:52:15PM +0200, Boaz Yahav wrote: Does mysql have something like NO LOCK? SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE myfield='xyz' NO LOCK By default, no. But if you use InnoDB tables in MySQL, you'll get non-locking SELECTS, which is probably what you're looking for. See the

Re: Events with MySQL

2001-08-26 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Darius Blaszijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm just beginning with MySQL, and I have the following question. Is there something like events in MySQL. What I want to do is write some message automtically into a table every time a record in some table is changed. You're looking for triggers,

MySQL Still a wise choice for developers?

2001-08-26 Thread Michael Widenius
Hi! Jeremy Zawodny did already answer this email, but I have a couple of additions to his answer. Chris == Chris Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chris Dear Everyone, Chris I have been looking at this mysql.com/org dispute for a while now, Chris and i must say i am getting more and more

Re: MySQL Still a wise choice for developers?

2001-08-26 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 04:45:07PM +0200, Chris Chabot wrote: Hi Jeremy, thanks for a good reply. In awnser to some of your questions : Jeremy Zawodny wrote: Now, a few years after first using MySql, a major dispute seems to plague the 'image' of MySql, and posibly also the future

Help Needed Please

2001-08-26 Thread training88
Hi I need to set the max_allowed_packet to 16M. below is my 01mysql-server.sh file. I use DBI and I know that I have to start this before the DBI program and I did but if I use ./mysqld --help it shows that my max_allowed_packet is still 1M. Any help would be really great since I've been working

Re: MySQL Still a wise choice for developers?

2001-08-26 Thread Chris Chabot
Hey Jeremy, Michael, I wanted to thank you both for your replies, they definatly have given me some more insight into the situation, and also gave me some extra motivation to keep my commitment to mysql. Like most other people, i hope this 'mess' can be resolved in the near future. Jeremy,

my ODBC to MySQL

2001-08-26 Thread John Fenton
Hi Can you help me locate the information on your website about converting Access 2000 to MySQL. I host with Webfusion, who use MySQL, but my site has been created using Access and I need to convert it before uploading. I understand the conversion is quite easy and that all the information is

RE: my ODBC to MySQL

2001-08-26 Thread Mike
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/contrib.html#SEC607 The Access one works pretty good. Cheers M;) If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy. - author -Original Message- From:

Traversing a tree structure in MySQL

2001-08-26 Thread Steve Manes
I'm in the process of building a tree-structured message base, or rather porting software I wrote back in mid-80s to the web. This isn't the ubiquitous threaded BBS software. It's tree-structured. This means that every message on the message base is related through a single ancestor, Msg

Setting user passwords per database

2001-08-26 Thread Mark Johnson
Is it possible to set a differenent password per database for the same user? It doen't appear to be possible - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/

Re: Setting user passwords per database

2001-08-26 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 10:40:20PM -0500, Mark Johnson wrote: Is it possible to set a differenent password per database for the same user? It doen't appear to be possible Not that I know of. The user is tied to a single password. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Query fails

2001-08-26 Thread Bill Angus
CREATE TABLE MSJOURNL (ACCT INT(3), DESC CHAR(29), DTE DATE) This query fails when MySQL encouters DESC. Changing DESC to DESCRIP causes the query to work. I'm wondering if filtering for the reserved word DESCRIBE causes DESC not to be legal for use in field names?

RE: Query fails

2001-08-26 Thread Venu
Hi !! )-Original Message- )From: Bill Angus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] )Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 1:58 PM )To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] )Subject: Query fails ) ) )CREATE TABLE MSJOURNL (ACCT INT(3), )DESC CHAR(29), )DTE DATE) ) )This query fails when MySQL encouters DESC. Changing DESC to

Re: Query fails

2001-08-26 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 01:58:23PM -0700, Bill Angus wrote: CREATE TABLE MSJOURNL (ACCT INT(3), DESC CHAR(29), DTE DATE) This query fails when MySQL encouters DESC. Changing DESC to DESCRIP causes the query to work. I'm wondering if filtering for the reserved word DESCRIBE causes DESC not

Re: Query fails

2001-08-26 Thread Jason Brooke
CREATE TABLE MSJOURNL (ACCT INT(3), DESC CHAR(29), DTE DATE) This query fails when MySQL encouters DESC. Changing DESC to DESCRIP causes the query to work. I'm wondering if filtering for the reserved word DESCRIBE causes DESC not to be legal for use in field names? desc itself is a